Jarrett Sleeper

A key is a collection of seven notes that all sound good together.

You'll notice when we play those first ones, we did A, B, C, D, E, F, G, they don't sound quite right together.

We're gonna start on an easier one, the most common one, C. If we start on C, and we go C, D, E, F, G, A, B, and land back on C,

It sounds quite good.

This is the C major scale.

A ton of songs are written in this.

It's very familiar to us.

In fact, if you only play the white keys on the piano, you're probably going to be playing in C major.

Yes, that is the key.

We've decided those all play well together.

Now, there's no rules if somebody does a little funky thing in there, but yes, for our purposes, yes.

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We've identified these patterns of notes and the way we figure out what those seven notes that work well together are.

I think the easiest way to remember is this phone number method they call it.

You just remember 2-2-1, 2-2-2-1.

And each of those numbers is a step up in the notes of those 12.

Now, step is a confusing word to use.

We're just going to throw this part out, but just for the people, because they'll often say a whole step, which is actually two notes or a half step, which is one.

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